FCC Filing Hints At Possible Starship Flight 8 Launch Date

FCC Filing Hints At Possible Starship Flight 8 Launch Date

Flight 7 lifted off from Orbital Launch Pad A (OLP-A) on January 16, 2025, at 22:37:00 UTC (4:37 pm CST, local time) at the Starbase launch site in Texas. Photo: Richard Gallagher/FMN
Starship Flight 7 lifted off from Orbital Launch Pad A (OLP-A) on January 16, 2025, at 22:37:00 UTC (4:37 pm CST, local time) at the Starbase launch site in Texas. Photo: Richard Gallagher/FMN

Figuring out Starship’s next launch date is never easy, but the are early indicators you can watch, One of them came in the form of an FCC filing late last week.

Booster B1067 Returns Home After Setting New SpaceX Record

Booster B1067 returns to Port Canaveral following its 25th successful launch. Blue Origin’s New Glenn is vertical in the background awaiting its own opportunity to land. Human for scale. Photo: Chris Leymarie, FMN.

SpaceX successfully launched the Starlink 12-12 mission from Cape Canaveral on Thursday afternoon.  With that, SpaceX added 21 new satellites to its ever growing internet constellation, 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities.